Joshua 11:16

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Joshua 11:16 tn Heb “Joshua took all this land.”
2. Joshua 11:16 sn The Negev is an area south of the Judean hill country and west of the rift valley. As a geographic feature it is an arid depression extending south to the Gulf of Aqabah, but the biblical reference is probably to the northern part of this region.
3. Joshua 11:16 sn The foothills (שְׁפֵלָה, “sh^ephelah”) refer to the transition region between the Judean hill country and the Mediterranean coastal plain.
4. Joshua 11:16 sn As a geographic feature, the rift valley (עֲרָבָה, ʿaravah) extends from Galilee to the Gulf of Aqaba. The reference here is probably to the Jordan Valley and the wider part of the rift valley below the Dead Sea.